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<h3 class="post-title">Groovy Goodness: Getting Head And Tail From an Array of Objects</h3>

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<p>We could already use the <code>head()</code> and <code>tail()</code> methods on <code>Collection</code> objects in Groovy, but in Groovy 1.7.3 we can use them on Object arrays as well.</p>
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String[] stringArray = ['Groovy', 'Grails', 'Spock']

assert 'Groovy' == stringArray.head()
assert ['Grails', 'Spock'] == stringArray.tail()
assert 'Groovy' == stringArray.first()
assert 'Spock' == stringArray.last()
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